Trade
President Donald Trump said he plans to pursue a trade deal with Mexico and possibly Canada even as talks with the U.S.’s northern neighbor stalled, leaving the future of a revised Nafta in doubt.
President Donald Trump said he would terminate the North American Free Trade Agreement and sign a new trade accord with Mexico, potentially leaving Canada out of the bloc.
President Donald Trump has signed off on a bilateral agreement with Mexico to revamp the North American Free Trade Agreement, and an announcement is expected later on Monday.
The agriculture markets are getting a lift as U.S. trade relations improve with Mexico, one of the largest foreign buyers of American meat and grain.
President Donald Trump said negotiations with Mexico on a new Nafta are “coming along nicely,” while telling Canada it will have to wait to re-enter the talks to modernize the three-nation trade pact.
U.S. farmers will see the first payments of a $12 billion subsidy program designed to shield them from a burgeoning trade war starting in September, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said.
Pres Trump and European Union leaders announced Wednesday they have agreed to work toward “zero tariffs” and “zero subsidies” on non-automobile goods, including buying more US soybeans.
White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said a plan by the Trump administration to pay $12 billion in relief to U.S. farmers is a stop-gap proposal that “nobody is thrilled about.”
President Donald Trump said he may prioritize a bilateral trade deal with Mexico over Canada and that he’s building a good rapport with Mexican President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
Soybean prices in the U.S. and Brazil, the nations that account for roughly 80 percent of global exports, have taken drastically different paths thanks to Donald Trump’s trade war.
The trade war is on. Pro Farmer Washington Analyst Jim Wiesemeyer looks at what it will take to declare truce in the trade battle.
USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue set out to calm frayed farmer nerves in a USA Today op-ed on the escalating trade war with China.
USDA continues to discuss, analyze possible options for financial backstop for farmers
President Donald Trump is threatening to slap tariffs on another $200 billion in Chinese imports as trade tensions between the world’s two largest economies reach new heights.
President Donald Trump said talks on a revised NAFTA are “doing very nicely” as ministers from the U.S., Mexico and Canada meet in Washington to try to push for an agreement by early May.
China Strikes The Heartland And President Trump’s Base
After an early jolt, stocks rallied and finished higher Wednesday as investors bet that back-and-forth tariff threats between the U.S. and China won’t blossom into a bigger dispute that damages global commerce.
China raised import duties on a $3 billion list of U.S. pork, fruit and other products Monday in an escalating tariff dispute with President Donald Trump that companies worry might depress global commerce.
Will Trump’s unpredictability on trade pay off for agriculture?
President Donald Trump remains in U.S. farmers’ good graces, according to the latest Farm Journal Pulse survey.
With more workers critical to China/Hong Kong’s food distribution chain returning from an extended Lunar New Year holiday break, a growing backlog of imported meat will make its way more smoothly into the market.
U.S. negotiators have reached the terms of a phase-one trade deal with China that now awaits President Donald Trump’s approval.
House Democrats plan a vote next week on the U.S.-Mexico-Canada free-trade agreement.
Economist Dermot Hayes says U.S. producers have lost $2.2 billion on an annualized basis due to events leading up to and following China’s 25% punitive tariffs in retaliation for U.S. tariffs on aluminum and steel.
Exclusive from Reuters: China has ramped up inspections of pork shipped from the U.S., the latest American product to be hit by a potentially costly slowdown at Chinese ports in the past couple of weeks.
A professor at Virginia Tech University says the U.S. should try to get the best trade deal with China that it can, but it should be wary of the potential consequences.
President Donald Trump said he may prioritize a bilateral trade deal with Mexico over Canada and that he’s building a good rapport with Mexican President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
The pork industry appears to be headed for a period of large losses in which excess pork supplies force prices below costs of production, says Chris Hurt, Purdue University agricultural economist.
Bob Utterback of Utterback Marketing and Doug Werling of Bower Trading hash it out with U.S. Farm Report host Tyne Morgan on this week’s Markets Now.
The outlook for trade has darkened considerably in recent days; a gamble in the trade arena that holds substantial risk for American farmers.